She regretted nothing she had shared with her lover, nor was she asham…

Isabel Allende
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She regretted nothing she had shared with her lover, nor was she ashamed of the fires that had changed her life; just the opposite, she felt that they had tempered her, made her strong, given her pride in making decisions and paying the consequences for them.
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